Jamal Bukhari is a commercial and technology attorney, practicing as a legal intern in Womble Bond Dickinson‘s Houston office. Jamal is part of the legal studies program at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia. Jamal holds Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Lewis & Clark Law School, MBA from the University of Strathclyde, and Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nottingham.
On February 8, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision in Weber, Inc. v. Provisur Technologies, Inc., reversing the finding of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that certain operating manuals with limited dissemination and confidentiality restrictions did not qualify as prior art. The Federal Circuit’s decision concluded that the Board misapplied the analysis for meeting the public accessibility standard for a printed publication to qualify as prior art.